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Matchday Programme 2018 Season £2 v Thornhill Trojans| Sat 3rd February 2018 | Ladbrokes Challenge Cup OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME £2 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE HONOURS President BARLA National Cup Winners: Dave Corless 1974-75, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82 BARLA Lancashire Cup Winners: Vice President 1974:74, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1980-81 Derek Cross BARLA Inter County Cup Winners: Chairman 1980-81 Ralph Rawsthorne North West Counties Premier Cup Winners: 2007-08, 2010-11, 2011-12 Vice Chairman North West Counties Champions: Dave Roughley 1977-78, 1979-80 Club Secretary North West Counties Div 1 Champions: Billy Dillon 1975-76, 1985-86, 1991-92, 2004-05 07879 662940 Warrington & District League Champions: 1973-74 Treasurer Warrington & District League Leaders: Andy Lyons 1968-69 Youth & Junior Development Director St.Helens Junior League Champions: Neil Belshaw 1953-54 St,Helens Junior League Leaders: Club Registration Manager 1951-52, 1953-54 Joanne Knapper St.Helens Cup Winners: Club Welfare Officer 1980-81, 1985-86, 2010-11 Gary Trueman West Lancs League Trophy Winners: 1953-54 07816 509995 Bootle Charity Cup Winners: Discipline Chairman 1953-54 Gary Philbin BARLA John Players 7s Winners: Junior Representative 1982 Haresfinch 7s Winners: Brian Hatton 2007 School Liaison Manager North West Counties Fair Play Award Ste Edgerton 2005/06 Fundraising Managers Kevin Whittall CONTACT US Sarah Whittall @pilksrecsarlfc Player Representative Paul Cresswell /pilkingtonrecs www.pilkigntonrecs.org CHAIRMANS WELCOME Good afternoon and welcome to the next round and I know the to Ruskin Drive for this sec- coaching staff will have run them ond round game of The Lad- through their drills. Thornhill will be brokes Challenge Cup. out to take the spoils and secure It gives me great pleasure to wel- their place in the next round too, so come our opponents today, Thorn- it promises to be a great spectacle hill Trojans, who have made the of rugby league. journey from the West Yorkshire I would like to pay thanks to our hotbed area of Rugby league. hard working committee who work Thornhill are a vibrant club with a hard behind the scenes in managing strong youth and junior set of teams the club business, thanks also to our and when you look at their track rec- sponsors for their continued support ord in this competition they are no of the club. Thanks also to all our strangers to taking on opposition spectators who I hope will be en- from the professional code. couraging the team on to win. Final- The season got under way a few ly a big thanks to all the players and weeks ago in round one when we coaches at all age groups who give took on Wallsend Eagles making the their time and efforts for the club. long trek up to Tyneside but running Enjoy the game, support your re- out comfortable winners against a spective team and applaud good plucky Eagles outfit. Thornhill in rugby and always spare a thought their draw faced the shorter journey for the officials without whom we to East Leeds but also came would not have a game. through as convincing winners. Come on THE RECS!! Today’s game promises to be a Yours in sport great curtain raiser for the National Conference League Division one Ralph E. Rawsthorne season as both clubs will meet up Chairman again in the league one competition. Recs will be out to progress through • All spectators are requested to remain behind the pitch side spectator barriers • Inside the ground perimeter fence is strictly a No Smoking Area at all times • No dogs are allowed inside the ground • Please use waste bins provided to dispose of your litter Finest Quality Pork Sausage Cooked Meats & Pies 01744 22738 Lock Street, off Merton Bank Road St. Helens, WA9 1HS ALEX SERVICE ADVERT TODAY’S VISITORS We welcome Thorn- Hull KR in 1995. The with 1,500 fans present. hill Trojans to Rus- search for a big name Cup hopes ended at kin Drive today in ‘scalp’ went on: Swinton Keighley Cougars, how- what is sure to be [1996] Featherstone eve,r with a 34-6 loss. a real cracking [1997] and Dewsbury in The club has enjoyed match. As we shall 1998 all triumphed over some good times in the see later, despite the lads from Dewsbury. Conference and we look their relatively late But then that big mo- forward to renewing formation, they ment arrived. At the be- their acquaintance back have created their ginning of 2000, Thorn- here on 12th June and in own particular hill, then struggling in Dewsbury on 16th June niche in the Chal- the Premier Division when we meet in the lenge Cup competi- relegation zone, trav- First Division when vital tion. elled to Sheffield Eagles league points will be at According to the club’s and pulled off the shock stake. Over the years excellent website, of the round by winning the club has produced Thornhill ARLFC was 16-14 against the men many fine players for formed in 1988 at a who, two years before, the professional game. meeting held at Thorn- had beaten Wigan to lift Names that we most hill Edge Club, attended the trophy! They did it certainly recognise, like by Thornhill Gate Offi- again, in 2006, when Bernard Watson, John- cials, players and sup- Workington Town fell 16 ny Harpin, the one and porters along with -12 at Ram Stadium, only Lee Gilmour, Dan- Thornhill Lees Juniors Dewsbury. The reward ny Brough, Paul Sykes, parents and officials. for this was a trip to Alex Bretherton and Previously to that, Rug- France to play Catalan Paul and David March. by League in the Thorn- Dragons [lost 0-66] at As the TTARLFC web- hill area had been Stade Jean Laffon in site emphasises: “A lot played under the Perpignan. There was of this is down to people Overthorpe Rangers another engaging match who put in many hours and Gate Inn Banner. in 2007 when Trojans of voluntary work to pro- The club started with played host to Russian duce a game which is Overthorpe Sports Club outfit Strela Kazan in character building and as headquarters and the Carnegie Challenge makes young people after much hard work it Cup at Overthorpe Park aware of life.” was made into an ap- propriate base for the club. They applied for Nation- al Conference member- ship in 1994 and their fine record in the Chal- lenge Cup began in ear- nest, with a tie against THINK YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY? Alex Service talks about different as- pects of our club which was first formed in 1878! Same Team, Different Code! The famous Recs have played three codes of foot- ball during their long exist- ence: Rugby Union, Associ- Winger Jack ‘Durdock’ Wilson’s medals from the professional rugby league era between the wars: Lancashire Cup and Lancashire League. ation Football and, of course Rugby League, the est in the game are re- the 1890s, with cup ties latter at semi-professional, quested to attend a prelimi- and leagues being intro- as well as amateur level! nary meeting to be held at duced. Yet the ‘bosses’ at In the early 1870s, William the Fleece Hotel on Pilkingtons did not allow the Douglas Herman, the new Wednesday the 19th. No- club to partake in such Head Chemist at Pilking- vember 1873 at 7.30p.m." matches. There had been a bit of bother, you see. In ton’s Crown Glassworks This proved to be the kick one match against Wigan wanted to establish a rugby start for what became the at City Road, the visiting club in St. Helens. He Saints. In 1878, however, captain was hit across the looked initially to his work- there was sufficient interest face with a dead rat, mates, but this came to to form a rugby club at the amongst other things! So it nothing. Had it succeeded, glassworks itself and St. was not for them! Mean- the first team in the town Helens Recreation was while, the Saints, who were would probably have been born, playing matches at now playing on a new pitch the equivalent of the Recs! Boundary Road. Gradually, at Knowsley Road had be- Undeterred, his next course by the 1880s, both the come Lancashire Second of action was to place an Saints and the Recs grew Division Champions and advertisement in the St. in strength and established were on the ‘up’. There was Helens Newspaper calling strong fixture lists, as well also a huge issue of broken a meeting at a local hostel- as providing a unique time about to cause a huge ry, the Fleece Hotel, for ‘derby’ clash for local sup- schism in the game itself. anyone interested in form- porters of rugby. They were ing a club: "It is proposed to feisty occasions and there form a football club for St. was also the opportunity to Continued later in Programme…….. Helens and neighbourhood. take part in football of a Gentlemen taking an inter- more competitive nature by COACHES CORNER So the new season is upon us off in the last round as the players and we welcome back all the looked to be a lot fitter than at the spectators to Ruskin Drive for same point last year and as a coach todays Challenge Cup tie. the desire to defend was pleasing to Whilst our opponents today, Thornhill, see. are unknown to us, we can be sure Whilst the quality of the opposition in they will prove a stern test, and will Wallsend was not necessarily the certainly be familiar to use by the end highest, the old adage of you can on- of the season as we will meet them in ly play what’s in front of you comes to the league after they had a fantastic mind, and their were plenty of encour- season last year being automatically aging signs for the season ahead.